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Correlation between colors and redshift of optically violent QSOs

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In this Letter we report the findings of a statistically significant relation between the continuum color indices and redshift of optically violent variable QSOs. No such correlation is found to exist for non-variable and moderately variable QSOs.

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  1. Dept of Physics, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

    D. Basu

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Basu, D. Correlation between colors and redshift of optically violent QSOs. Astrophys Space Sci 72, 241–245 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00642184

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